Eighty-seven years after the Maud sank and a year after it was pulled up from the seabed, the ship will start its float home to Norway from Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, this summer.

"It's a big moment to see that's she's now starting to begin the trip back home," said Jan Wanggaard, manager for the Maud Returns Home project. "We share this with a lot of people in Norway."

Maud's rig was also used on the Fram, the ship that took Amundsen to the South Pole. (Submitted by Jan Wanggaard)

The wooden ship was named for Queen Maud of Norway and christened when polar explorer Roald Amundsen shattered a piece of ice against its hull. It left Norway in July 1918, heading for the North Pole via the Northeast Passage.

It never made it.

Amundsen's creditors sold it to the Hudson's Bay Company and it sank in 1930.

It rested in the shallow water across from Cambridge Bay until last summer when a team of four Norwegians used giant "balloons" to raise the wreck. The team then slipped a barge under it and left it out over the winter to dry.